The Lava Burned the Oil Which Melted the Methane Which Caused Global Warming

In the below article the idea is that ancient global warming was still caused by greenhouse gasses it was just that lava got into the coal and oil and burned it all up and that caused the Earth to pollute itself. This took about 100,000 years. Which, by my reckoning is a bit more than Al Gore's predictions.

However, the article still maintains, "But the volcanism was only a trigger. All the greenhouse gas emitted by the eruptions and the ensuing cooking of organic matter would still not have been enough to cause the changes in climate and ocean chemistry..." It just melted methane in the oceans and that caused global warming.

I don't know...the sun got hotter seems like a much more simple explanation to me. Also, recall that Mars is getting warmer too. That could be the sun as well. I read that one theory for Mars is that temperature variations are causing the dust storms which in turn cause temperature changes. Seems circular to me...which came first?

Volcanoes triggered ancient warming event

Tasty Co2 is Plant Food

"Tom Harris, executive director of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project - an organization that attempts to debunk some of the popular beliefs about climate change - supported Patterson's findings.

Global warming assertions are based on inconclusive evidence put forth in science reports that had not been published yet, he said.

"The media takes (inconclusive) information that only suggests there could be a climate problem and turns it into an environmental catastrophe," said Harris.

"They continually say we only have 10 years left, and they've been saying it for 20 years, and it's ridiculous," he said. "The only reason I got involved in talking to media is that I think our resources are being mismanaged."

It's about time!

Global warming debate 'irrational': scientists

Carbon-Sin: Reformation Needed

The whole idea of carbon offsets is at best a trick of the mind. It's like people trying to console themselves after a tragic death by saying, "at least they went quickly", Ignoring that they still went.

I just figured out what this is...just this moment. It's a very old idea brought back to life, an insidious and false idea, that of indulgences. I'm surly not the first to make this comparison, because it makes so much sense someone else will surely have thought of it too. However, while the idea may be stale to some, it is fresh to me. Commit a carbon-sin, "when the coin in the box sings, green tree to heaven springs".

Industry caught in carbon ‘smokescreen’

Stepping on Fingers

This is very similar to the last post on Howard Dean. It's okay for Gore to make a film and win an award and the whole world should believe it, even though it is full of lies, but if someone else comes out with a film that can't stand. These tactics show their hand, that the position they cling to is tenuous. I see their fingers weakening their grip on the edge of the cliff and they about to tumble over.

Film on Global Warming Is Challenged

If a Democrat Debates in the Forrest...

I'm sure Howard Dean would love to have the option of holding a debate without the media. That's the equivalent of holding a debate to which no one comes. Howard Dean is a liberal and in true liberal fashion they want the microscope to be put to everyone else but they want to be exempt. There's a psychology involved here and it's my wish to understand it. Just what makes a person feel the desire to point the finger and everyone else but be so afraid it will be pointed back at them? I would say it comes from a desire to always be right, sure, but where does that desire come from?

Dean: Bar Media and Candidates Will Talk

Not About Virginia Shootings

If you think this post is about the Virginia shootings, then think again, it isn't. There's a greater implication than what happened there due to what happened there. Today I read an editorial by Peggy Noonan. I'm not sure how she got to be so brilliant, so salient and thoughtful, but I have a feeling it simply is a gift from God to her and to the rest of us.

She says, "With all the therapy in our great therapized nation, with all our devotion to emotions and feelings, one senses we are becoming a colder culture, and a colder country."

We've been told for years that there is no link between violence and television or violence and the movies. Who among us hasn't had an intuitive sense that this just wasn't true? Violence begets violence, even if it is imagined and on film. There is a switch inside the human mind that processess the hurting of other people and which tells us to feel uncomfortable about it. There's another switch that tells us we have to protect ourselves, not only physically, but emotionally. Watch enough violence and the latter switch will turn on to protect us, and by so doing the first will turn off. We will no longer be bothered by the blood and gore as a necessary defense, a protection against emotional harm.

When this happens, what then?

We become a colder, harder people trying desperatly to get back what we have lost by laying down on a million doctor's couches, swollowing a billion pills, and wondering what went wrong.

READ PEGGY'S EDITORIAL HERE.

"A Vested Interest in Creating Panic"

There are many things in this video that really hit home. Some we've talked about in the past and others I had not thought of. There's also a huge amount of the love of money in it. Also, some great information about the sun and climate forecasting.

Once thing I found to be most powerful was the effect of environmental activism on 3rd world countries. For example, the environmental movement prevents development of industry in 3rd world countries, thus keeping them poor. While Africa has coal and oil they are told by the UN not to use it but rather to use wind or solar power. However, such methods of generation are expensive. An African economist, James Shikwati, interviewed for the film, makes the clear point that if wind and solar power are expensive for the Europeans, expensive for the west, then they are unobtainable by poor Africans. He says he hardly sees solar panels powering a steel plant or any major industrial factory. It seems compassion would cause us to want the poor to rise up and have the things that we have, yet those who care about the planet, the animals, seem to care less about humans.

Global Warming isn't about the environment but it is about the future, one in which one group struggles for power and dollars from other groups. It is all about politics and power and it seems, oppression.

VIEW VIDEO HERE.

Atheism as Religion

"Rod Liddle argues against those who turn to atheism for a rational and moderate approach to today's problems, and says that atheism has high priests and dogmatic beliefs, just like fundamentalist religion."

I tried embedding this video, like the others, but it would have none of it, so HERE'S THE LINK.

This video pretty much speaks for itself and reflects on atheism similar themes that I have expressed on global warming, evolution and liberalism. As a side note, Google.com Videos is one of the few places on the web where one can find full length videos of interesting subjects. It has its share of 30 second clips of people falling down and getting smacked in the groin, but also has useful videos for those who dig.

There are those who belive...

"There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. They may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens..."

Remember that from the original Battle Star Galactica TV series? I sure do, and I loved it. When I saw this picture of the Red Square Nebula I was at first struck by how much it looked like a square (thus the name), which is an odd shape in nature. Then I realized how much it looked like a pyramid as seen from the top down. That made me think of Egyptians, which made me think of space, because they were so into it, and that made me think of the Americas, because the people there were so into the stars, and that led me to think of Battle Star Galactica.

None of that is important, and I don't believe in little green (or gray) men, but I thought it was a great picture and squares are, after all, odd in nature.

READ ARTICLE HERE.

A Depressing Religion

This article asks, "Why So Gloomy?"  That's a very good question.  Why is the Global Warming crowd so darn gloomy and bent on the end of civilization as we know it.  Is it that they only way they can get power, get attention, is if they make it seem like a matter of live and death?  That's not what science does, that's what religion does.  If they would just admit to their earth mother roots then I would let them alone, but they insist on telling me it's science.

 

The author of the article states, "Recently many people have said that the earth is facing a crisis requiring urgent action. This statement has nothing to do with science. There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we've seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe."

 

As religions go, the church of Global Warming stinks!  Where's the salvation, the eternal life, the reward?  We turn over our lives to mother earth and in return mother earth gets to survive.  The real GOD has his glory without me, and is in no danger of being destroyed by man. 

 

Anyway, that's a rant, read the article, it's far less indignant.

READ ARTICLE HERE.

The Slow, Slow Earth

It amazes me how the changes to the Earth take place over millions of years. It's all so slow, so mysterious. I wish there was a way we could speed up time, like in the movies, and somehow see the effects right now.

To Hunt and Gather in the City

I started reading the below linked article because I love food, and especially food that others might consider exotic. So it was really for entertainment purposes, then they had to go and stick something intelligent in there.

"He intended it to demonstrate that most of us have depersonalized our relationship to food, and that current regulations requiring that any game commercially sold in America must be raised on farms or ranches is actually harmful to both the farmed animals and wild ones."

“If someone were watching from a distant planet,” he writes in “The Scavenger’s Guide,” “our beliefs might look like this: domestic animals should be more wild; wild animals should be more domestic; and wild meat is good, so long as someone else kills it.”

I'm not a hunter. I've been once in my life and even then I didn't kill anything, I was too young to even wield a gun. I do fish. I am not opposed to hunting, I'm just not a hunter. So I do understand about wanting someone else to kill it, that's far easier than doing it myself. Yet, I think it's an important skill to have, and know I could do it if required to.

What I found really interesting about the quote was the way animals are thought of now. He's right, those on a farm are supposed to live in conditions as close to their wild habitat as possible and those in the wild, like bears, elk and wolves, are protected and managed by people to the utmost. I blame this on liberalism. No, I don't blame everything on liberals, but this is pretty clear. PETA, Pam Anderson, anyone who sprays fur with paint, chains themselves to a tree or marries a dolphin are all to blame and they are all liberal. I believe we have the obligation to be good stewards of the planet and the animals but I also firmly believe we have dominion over them. They aren't equal to us and should not be treated as though they are. This leads to problems, this leads to humans being more animal and animals being more human. This is Darwinism. We came from animals, so we are just an animal, therefore animals are equal to humans. Therefore humans can act like animals.

READ ARTICLE HERE.
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A 72 Year-Old Buddhist is a Threat to Al-Qaida

Does it get more ridiculous than this?  Al-Qaida wants to assassinate the Dalai Lama.  That would be the old, Buddhist leader.  That's a very, very calm and peaceful man.  What could they have against him?  Here's what, "In a recent document, Osama bin Laden denounced "pagan Buddhism" as part of his general attack on anything not Islamic."  This war has little to nothing to do with the United States and everything to do with radical Islam.

READ ARTICLE HERE.

Who's Your Cute Little Metallica...

It took me a moment to process this article fully. When I first read it I was filled with indignation at the fact that this couple had to get their baby's name approved by their government, then further so from the fact the name they chose was denied by said government.

Then I read it again and was filled with further indignation that the name they chose was "Metallica". Maybe their government should have to review their children's names before they become official. When common sense has flown out the window then perhaps it is time government steps in and saves up from ourselves. The parents said "it suits her", her being their little newborn, "because she's decisive and she knows what she wants." Knows what she wants? She doesn't even know enough not to poo herself let alone make clear choices.

In the end, I went back to being mad that a government has anything to do with the name of a child. That's something deeply personal. My wife and I pondered and prayed for inspiration on proper names for our children, names that would last them for their entire lives without regret. What business is it of government to tell me that is wrong? No business at all, even if the rest of us really think Metallica is a dumb name.

READ ARTICLE HERE.